Wonderful! These are fascinating buildings. The answer is that you need to
be quite experimental. I would recommend mapping these in various ways.
Axiality is clearly important in that minor variations in axis between
exterior avenues and the interior floor plans are used, and an axial
analysis would represent this kind of factor, however, the effect of massive
columns closely spaced together also has interesting effects on the way one
reads convex pieces of space and on the isovists available from different
points of view. Moving a metre one way or another can open up or close off a
whole vista, and this happens continuously as one moves through some of the
buildings. This kind of effect would best be examined using visibility graph
analysis, and I would probably start with this. The worker's village, from
my memory, would benefit from both axial analysis and domestic space types
of analysis (rooms as nodes and thresholds as links). For this I would
recommend the JASS software from KTH Stockholm, also reading Julienne
Hanson's book on Decoding Homes and Houses to look at how you might think
about analysis of space at this scale.
Alan Penn
Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
+44 (0)20 7679 5919
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www.vr.ucl.ac.uk
www.spacesyntax.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Nabil Mohareb
> Sent: 08 March 2007 12:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: software space syntax inside architectural building
>
> Dear Alan
> Thank you for your reply.
> i am trying to analysis Egyptian Temples, and the workers village in
Egypt.
> most of the temples are consist of enclosed spaces with separated by
> mainly walls and a lot of columns, so how to apply axial map in a space
> mostly consist of columns. is Depthmap suitable for this spaces.
> Thanks
>
> regards
> Nabil
> UAE University
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Penn <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, March 8, 2007 4:03 pm
> Subject: Re: software space syntax inside architectural building
>
> > Nabil,
> >
> > Depthmap is probably the easiest to use and most versatile for
> > this at the
> > moment.
> >
> > Alan Penn
> > Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing
> > The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
> > University College London
> > Gower Street
> > London WC1E 6BT
> > +44 (0)20 7679 5919
> > [log in to unmask]
> > www.vr.ucl.ac.uk
> > www.spacesyntax.org
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [log in to unmask]
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > > Behalf Of Nabil Mohareb
> > > Sent: 08 March 2007 11:56
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: software space syntax inside architectural building
> > >
> > > Dear Sirs
> > > I am PhD student, I would like to know if there is a PC space syntax
> > > software to apply inside architectural building (historical
> > buildings).> Thank you
> > > regards
> > > Nabil
> > > UAE University
> >
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